Virtual consoles in Arch

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

Hi Gene,

The new systed infrastructure for archlinux no longer uses  some of those
familiar  and convenient files that other distros still use. Thanks anyway,
but I'd rather tighten my belt and stick with six VC's than move away from
archlinux again.

Chuck

On Mon, 24 Dec 2012, acollins at icsmail.net wrote:

> Hello Chuck!  Well, I use Debian, instead of arch, but if you look in
> /etc/inittab, you should find several lines like this.
>
> 6:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty6
> if you duplicate this line, and then change the sixes to sevens, and
> then do an init 2, the system should allocate another console.  If you
> add more lines, with eights, nines, etc. you can have up to 64 virtual
> consoles pre-allocated at system startup.  You can also look at your
> distro for a package called openvt, which will let you allocate more
> consoles on the fly.  Hope this helps.
>
> Gene
>
>
> >Hi Kyle,
> >
> >> Systemd allocates virtual consoles as needed, so simply switching to one wil
> l
> >> automatically create it. There should no longer be any need to statically
> >> allocate more, as you start now with only one. Hope this helps.
> >
> >That only seems to work for the first six colnsoles for me, there seems to
> >be no way to switch to console 7, or 8, etc. I normally move from one
> >console to another with alt+right-arrow, or alt+left-arrow,  and when I am
> >in console 6 and press alt+right-arrow, I am back in console 1. Likewise,
> >alt+F7 doesn't do it for me either.
> >
> >Chuck
> >
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